v.（使）丧偶，（使）成为寡妇（或鳏夫）（widow的过去式及过去分词）
adj.丧偶的
widowed marriage───丧偶婚姻
She was widowed when she was 35.───她35岁时就守了寡。
More and more young men are widowed by cancer.───越来越多的男青年被癌症夺去妻子。
Once upon a time, people who lived alone tended to be those on either side of marriage—twentysomething professionals or widowed senior citizens.───曾几何时，独自生活的人往往是婚姻中的任意一方——或是包括20多岁的专业人士，或是丧偶的老年人。
When I was a child, three of my grandparents, one widowed grandmother and a pair of grandparents, lived with us in our house.───在我小时候，我寡居的姥姥和爷爷奶奶三位老人与我们住在一起。
She was widowed when they met again, and he had tried to help her find a job in the city, but she had never been his mistress.───等他们再见面时，她已经守了寡，他帮她在城里找到一份工作，但是她从来没有成为他的情妇。
The cast includes Michelle Pfeiffer as Sam's widowed mom and Olivia Wilde as his girlfriend trying to help him on this emotional journey.───演员阵容还包括饰演山姆孀居母亲的米歇尔·菲佛及作为他女朋友想在这次情感之旅帮助他的奥利维亚·外尔德。
After police were called, she said she was widowed 10 years ago and the pension left by her engineer husband was no longer sufficient.───警察赶到后，这名老妇人表示，她已守寡10年，亡夫留下的养老金已不能再满足她正常生活的开支。
He had had a 20-year love-hate relationship with a girlfriend and was living, at the time of his diagnosis, with his widowed mother.───他原有一个交往了20年、爱恨交加的女友，在他受诊的那段时间里和他的寡母同住。
His widowed mother and uncles told him to kill the 17-year-old after she eloped with her boyfriend, staining the family's honor.───当时，那个17岁的女孩和她的男友私奔，玷污了家族的荣誉，所以，他寡居的母亲和叔叔们让他杀死这个女孩。
The widowed mother reared up the two children.